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Shashi Tharoor, a former UN under-secretary-general and former Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs, is currently an MP for the Indian National Congress and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. He is the author of Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century.

Its the very critical analysis of present political governing system. The institutional capacity plays crucial role to frame and establish the democratic principles therefore the political power always try to attack and control strategic institutional values through military, civil services, education and electoral process. This is very alarming situation to the world's largest democracy. It has both sides. The major reason is the weaker opposition party in the Indian Parliament history. So, its time to review the past and strengthen the present strategy rather than blaming the governing party.

Why is Mr. Tharoor silent on the biggest assault on the EC perpetuated by the Opposition including by members of his own party? It is common knowledge that many opposition figures have questioned the legitimacy of elections conducted by the EC using the Electronic Voting Machines because the outcome did not suit their narrative. This is despite the EC and the Supreme Court having shown irrevocable proof that there is nothing faulty in this system. Is this not a much bigger assault on the EC as an institution than anything he is claiming in the article? This directly questions the validity of electoral results in India and therefore has a much larger potential for causing social unrest in the country. However given Mr. Tharoor's partisan leanings, his and his party's silence on this matter smacks of double standards and the raising of selective non-issues to suit their political agenda fits this pattern. Such claims only further erode whatever political capital Mr. Tharoor's employers in the Gandhi family claim to have in the country. The Congress party's assault on institutions in the country is only well known including the disastrous imposition of an Emergency by the family he swears by. It is no surprise him and his ilk are being confined to the dustbins of history by the Indian electorate given their political amnesia.

Sir, I all humility I agree to your point that India's democratic institutions are being undermined, but this is a ploy the BJP learned from the Congress. When we talk about the CBI being a caged parrot, the Delhi High Court had called it to be such when the Congress govt did not want to give it more autonomy. True to your words, where you stand depends on where you sit, the Congress is as much to blame as the BJP is, and at the end of the day, we the people of India are left high and dry.

Why did Tharoor join a party and swear allegiance to a dynasty which has done far worse? He was himself a Minister when Modi and other senior BJP lawyers were falsely accused of genocide and even terrorism with the result that the US banned Modi from entering that country. All those court cases and CBI investigations have been shown to have been a sham.Tharoor's party- and the dynasty it serves- has thoroughly corrupted every single institution in the country. Thus it can always mobilise malcontents- more especially those who curried favour with it in the past in return for pecuniary and other benefits- within each and every institution.

Let us now turn to the various charges Tharoor makes1) Governors serve at the pleasure of the President who acts on advise of the PM. It is perfectly proper for them to be replaced after a change in administration.2) There is no departure from precedent in Karnataka. If Tharoor knows of some argument beyond those advanced by his party's lawyers why does not state it plainly? Why stoop to innuendo?3) Does Tharoor really believe that 4 judges conspired to kill a brother judge? If he does then the Rule of Law is already dead in India. If not, he is hypocritical in attacking the Chief Justice. The truth is it is his party which is on the back-foot- which is why it lost Karnataka- because it concentrates on making up completely absurd charges of murder and skulduggery rather than campaign on bread and butter issues. This strategy has misfired completely. Tharoor himself has been charged with some crime in connection with the death of his wife. The BJP, wisely, has not tried to make capital out of this because the charge appears absurd.

4) Tharoor says 'most most Indians believe that the BJP pressured the EC to delay the announcement as long as possible, so that it could attract voters with last-minute giveaways that had nothing to do with flood relief'. He must have gone stark staring mad if he thinks even 0.01 percent of Indians believe any such thing. Elections are delayed by floods, earthquakes etc. Modi's team took better advantage of the delay. Tharoor's team was trying to attack Amit Shah as a crypto-Jain (because they have espoused Hindu chauvinism, Tharoor himself just published a book called 'Why I'm a Hindu') who got a fellow Jain who was Chief Justice of another state to offer a bribe to a Judge who was then killed by 4 of his brother judges because....urm... dunno.

5) Tharoor says the EC made matters worse by disqualifying some MLAs. How? Nothing changed. The Court said the EC made a procedural error- they had disqualified MLAs for holding offices of profit without giving them a hearing. So what? They'll get a hearing and be disqualified. No damage has been done. Tharoor pretends otherwise- or rather, he is going through the motions- he is pretending to pretend. Otherwise, why put forward such a weak argument? To show the EC has gone bad you need to show that at least one of the disqualified MLAs did not hold an office of profit. Tharoor can't be bothered. He is just churning this out mindlessly to earn brownie points.

6) The Supreme Court clarified RBIs fiduciary duties just a couple of years ago. If the RBI has such duties in the context Tharoor describes it would be obliged to keep the matter confidential. It would be in the same position as an attorney to a defendant! Tharoor mentions the Trade Unions for RBI officers. They go on strike for higher pensions and more power and perks and so forth. So what? How is it relevant?It's like saying a Judge died. This his brother judges killed him. OMG, all is the fault of that dastardly Amit Shah! Just look some Trade Union is demanding higher wages and more power and perks. This proves Amit Shah is destroying Democracy!7) Why is Tharoor pretending there are 'time honoured principles of seniority' re. appointing a Chief of Army Staff. This has never been the case. Why? Defence priorities change. If they didn't every COAS everywhere would be a cavalry man.Tharoor says Modi told a lie. But his lie was believable. The problem with Tharoor's lies are that they are wholly illogical and absurd. That is why his party keeps losing. 8) The previous administration had indeed made the CBI a 'caged parrot' but its lies about Modi were not believed. Congress said the man was a genocidal maniac. His track-record says otherwise. No doubt the CBI could trump up charges against Tharoor- but this would back-fire. The public would back Tharoor and he'd be re-elected with a bigger margin.9) Tharoor scrapes the bottom of the barrel by mentioning High School Exams. This is a subject well covered by sensationalist TV channels. Everyone knows the truth. Still, as an exercise in bad faith, Tharoor decides to throw it in. After all, this whole article is nothing but a pretence of pretending to be outraged and alarmed. Congress is telling stupider lies than anyone can swallow so it is getting hammered at the polls. This does not mean Democracy is in danger. It just means Congress is being stupid and Tharoor has to show he's a loyal foot soldier by repeating the stupidest of its arguments.

10) The press is free but it just isn't very good because the incentives are lacking.

Indians have lost faith in the Congress party, not Democracy, because Congress is asking us to believe paranoid fantasies in which judges kill their own. It must come up with more plausible narratives. Sadly, it seems, Tharoor- a prolific, too prolific, author- can't help them there. Why? It is not that his pen is too facile. Rather, it is his imagination which is lacking. He can't conceive what it is like to struggle along in 'cattle class' India.

REALIGNMENT OF ECONOMICS WITH DEMOCRACY - YET TO BEGINInstitutional Architecture that the Congress Economics created must end.The Marginalized Majority has Democracy to realign the NDTV Economics.The Urdu/Hindi Heartlands used Democracy - but Congress Economics remain.The garb of Economic Expertise of NDTV Economics lies mercilessly massacred.India's Economics is now so far behind China's Economics - after 7 Decades.The only comparable continental economics is Africa - as Europe, Arabia, Anglosphere and now China are in a different league.The Author wishes to hide behind the questionable legitimacy of an Institutional Architecture that has let India down - The legacy of Democracy has crystallized power in the hands of The Marginalized Majority. But the Trojans inside so far appear to be recycled wine in saffron bottles.The Realignment of Economics with Democracy has not even begun - and the NDTV Mafia is already seeing red.